It is the autumn of 1942 and a German intelligence officer is staring at a prisoner’s uniform with growing unease. The man in…
It is the summer of 1940 and somewhere in rural Buckinghamshire, a captured Luftwaffer pilot is sitting across a table from a man…
July 1st, 1898. San Juan Heights, Cuba. 100 p.m. Sergeant George Barry of the 10th Cavalry Regiment holds the regimental flag as Spanish…
June 9th, 1944. Ramatelli airfield, Italy. Captain Wendell Puit of the 332nd Fighter Group climbs into his P-51 Mustang for the morning escort…
October 1944, Fort Wuka, Arizona. Captain John Renan stands before Major General Edward Almond, commander of the 92nd Infantry Division. Renan is requesting…
On September 2nd, 2008, in a valley in Uruguan Province, Afghanistan, an Australian SAS trooper named Mark Donaldelsson was running beside a convoy…
In the mountains of Uruguan province, Afghanistan, coalition helicopter pilots passed around an informal rule that became something close to gospel. If you…
October 14th, 1943. Over the skies of central Germany, 291 Boeing B17 flying fortresses rolled out of England that morning in tight combat…
They called themselves the screaming eagles. They horned an ears to airborne division. America’s most elite paratroopers. Dropped into the worst jungles, the…
In the opening months of 1942, something happened in the Pacific that stunned the world. For decades, [music] European empires had dominated Asia.…